Archives for March 2005

"Here at Herring & Waffleman, we strive for the finishing line of the future, that only comes with experience and knowledgeing" ... Steve Rubel smells a PR Stunt I think he may be right, in that the herring is RED (great logo) and waffle as in waffle, which is what the text of the site is made up of. Whatever it is, it is VERY funny!"Our people are our best staff and we … [Read more...]

Today's NY Times Q&A page has a Q on RSS - Q. What does it mean when a Web site says it has an R.S.S. feed available. Glad I saw this as it reminded me - once again, that I still had not gotten around to giving Pluck a try. It has been so long since I looked at it that it now has a web as well as a desktop version - "Pluck Web Edition (PWE) manages your bookmarks and … [Read more...]

Well for the past week or so I have had feeds for Telecoms, Media, Computers and Internet/Online services coming in from Factiva.The feeds are generating around 1-4 items a day on average - not enough I would argue, although even what they are picking up is strange. For example, is news that "Cognos Inc. will expand its workforce by almost 50% over the next three years, … [Read more...]

In testimony to the California Senate Judiciary Committee, EPIC West Director Chris Jay Hoofnagle argued that Google's Gmail service presents significant risks to personal privacy. The Gmail system reads the actual content of e-mail and attachments in order to target advertising. While Google calls this process content "scanning," the company's patents use the phrase "content … [Read more...]

Haringey Council is set to become one of the first UK local authorities to make free wireless broadband services available at all of its libraries. The new wi-fi facilities, launched this morning by Lord McIntosh, the Media and Heritage Minister, will be rolled out over the next few weeks. [eGov Monitor] … [Read more...]